Lewis's Department Store

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 24 Apr, 2008 12:01 am

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BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Thu 24 Apr, 2008 10:40 am

Many thanks Chameleon - I've downloaded it and will "have a go" when a monment to spare !!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 18 May, 2008 2:36 pm

For LEEDS LASS and everyone with happy memories of the wonderful store here hopefully are a few more pictures of the beautiful stairways.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 18 May, 2008 2:41 pm

Another

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 18 May, 2008 2:42 pm

Another

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 18 May, 2008 2:44 pm

And one more

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Sun 18 May, 2008 3:16 pm

nice pics blakey there are a load on leodis too, of inside the store just before it closed

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 18 May, 2008 3:33 pm

kierentc wrote: nice pics blakey there are a load on leodis too, of inside the store just before it closed Didn't realise that - will take a look when I've chance - many thanks !! Incidentally these were all taken in the fortnight after it closed, when the fixtures and fittings were on public sale - despite heavy security presence apparently the barefaced wholesale theft was unbelievable - the filing cabinet which I'd bought and paid for "walked" before I'd chance to bring a vehicle to collect it !!

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 12 Sep, 2008 12:45 am

Just had a flashback. Does anyone else remember a female sales assistant Lewis's had who must have been well over six feet tall? She was there for years.I think she mainly worked in what we used to call the old ladies' clothes department but I'm sure I saw her on cutlery and gifts. Lewis's were big on cutlery and glass weren't they?

Briggy · Post by **Briggy** » Fri 12 Sep, 2008 11:40 am

What a great thread and wonderful pictures. Good old Lewis's (and Schofields) provided a completely different shopping experience than anything to be had nowadays.Apparently, according to my mum, all shopping trips to Leeds when I was a very little kid had to start by setting off from the bottom floor of Lewis's and travelling to the top floor on the escalators and then down in the lift. Shopping could then proceed. Hadn't discovered this thread when I posted on the Schofield's one, but does anyone else remember a report of a child falling over the bannister in Lewis's in the 50s/early 60s whilst queuing up the stairs to see Santa, or was this another urban myth? I really hope it was the myth.